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Five Black women tell their stories with humor and pathos, embodying the timeless theme that human rights must be ascendant.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Chapter Meeting: A Socialist Comedy for the People!’
Internal conflict derails a Democratic Socialists of America chapter meeting in this acute new comed…
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Whoopi Monologues’ Revives Whoopi Goldberg’s Classic Characters
Five Black women tell their stories with humor and pathos, embodying the timeless theme that human r…
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Music Review: Aaron Lee Tasjan – ‘Get Over it Underdog’
Aaron Lee Tasman's 'Get Over it Underdog' is a Daliesque mirror view of today’s world. An album for …
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Theater Review: ‘The Loved Ones’ – Overcoming Grief with Community
When Nell plans a weekend with her daughter-in-law Orla to quietly memorialize Robin's death and com…
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Music Reviews: The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues,’ plus Soul Music from Baltimore
Everything here sounds worthy of the Stones, probably in no small part because it sounds as if they’…
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Whoopi Monologues’ Revives Whoopi Goldberg’s Classic Characters
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Music Review: Aaron Lee Tasjan – ‘Get Over it Underdog’
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Theater Review: ‘The Loved Ones’ – Overcoming Grief with Community
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Music Reviews: The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues,’ plus Soul Music from Baltimore
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘The Legend of Kamui: Volume 3’ by Shirato Sanpei, from Drawn+Quarterly
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Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘Criminal’ (Live) With Guest Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy joined Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer to celebrate live the 10th Anniversary of the podcast 'Criminal.'
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World Premieres and Top Talent Rock SXSW’s 2023 Film Festival
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Interview with Nils Lofgren (Part Two): On Working with Lou Reed, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen
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Interview with Nils Lofgren (Part One): On New Live Record ‘Weathered,’ A Life of Touring, and More
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Interview: Actress Paula Garcés, Co-Creator of ‘World of Aluna’
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Snow Good or No Good?
That's what I asked myself this morning as I glanced out the window.
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This Mets Fan Is Rooting for the Dodgers in the World Series – It’s in My DNA!
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Father’s Day – Celebrating Dad, the Most Important Influence in My Life
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Why You Should Not Say ‘Happy Memorial Day!’
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Gaza Genocide: Silence on Set, and in All of Hollywood!
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The FCC’s “Hard Way” Is a Warning Shot at the First Amendment
Stephen Colbert is out. Jimmy Kimmel is off the air. And the FCC Chairman has offered the country a chilling choice: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”
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Shocked? Political Violence Ain’t Nothing New
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Trump, Project 2025, and the Unfolding Authoritarian Blueprint: Five-Alarm Fire
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NAB 2025: Stephen A. Smith Takes on the Future of Sports and Running for President
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Elon Musk’s Controversial Salute: A Mere Distraction or a Warning Sign?
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GLP-1 Journey: One Month In
It grieves me to see how much it costs to use these potentially life-changing medicines...but the lowest dose restored my willpower over food.
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Exclusive Interview: Michael Kahan, ‘Funny in Failure’ Podcast Host
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Software Review: ‘Adobe Premiere Rush’ – Speed Without Mickey Mouse
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Sentencing 101: How the Justice System Works
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Nine Ways to Childproof Your Home
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Chapter Meeting: A Socialist Comedy for the People!’
Internal conflict derails a Democratic Socialists of America chapter meeting in this acute new comedy from Taylor Jon Gonzalez and Perfect 10.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Whoopi Monologues’ Revives Whoopi Goldberg’s Classic Characters
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Music Review: Aaron Lee Tasjan – ‘Get Over it Underdog’
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Theater Review: ‘The Loved Ones’ – Overcoming Grief with Community
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Music Reviews: The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues,’ plus Soul Music from Baltimore
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Whoopi Monologues’ Revives Whoopi Goldberg’s Classic Characters
Five Black women tell their stories with humor and pathos, embodying the timeless theme that human rights must be ascendant.
Read More » -
Music Review: Aaron Lee Tasjan – ‘Get Over it Underdog’
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Theater Review: ‘The Loved Ones’ – Overcoming Grief with Community
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Music Reviews: The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues,’ plus Soul Music from Baltimore
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘The Legend of Kamui: Volume 3’ by Shirato Sanpei, from Drawn+Quarterly
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ATX TV Fest Founders Caitlin McFarland and Emily Gipson Talk About ‘TV Camp for Grown Ups’
For four days every spring, Austin turns into “TV Camp for Grown Ups" with the Austin TV Festival.
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Discovering Funny at ATX TV Fest: Five Shows, and the Writers of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’
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ATX TV Event: Classic ‘Twilight Zone’ Moments with a Rod Serling Biographer
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Music Review: Aaron Lee Tasjan – ‘Get Over it Underdog’
Aaron Lee Tasman's 'Get Over it Underdog' is a Daliesque mirror view of today’s world. An album for our times.
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Music Reviews: The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues,’ plus Soul Music from Baltimore
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Concert Review: Poiesis Quartet Plays Beethoven and a Jeff Scott Premiere
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘The Legend of Kamui: Volume 3’ by Shirato Sanpei, from Drawn+Quarterly
As manga's readership grew older, artists like Sanpei created more mature works that kept the action and adventure of the earlier work while also including adult themes and social critique.
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Book Review: ‘Grub: Why We Eat, Why It Matters and the Seven Forces That Shape Our Food’ by Lee Cadesky
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Comic Review: ‘Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated’ by R. Sikoryak, from Drawn+Quarterly
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Party Game Review: ‘In A World’ from Ludonaut
'In A World' from Ludonaut Games draws players together to decide what in the world they would want in a world a little or very different from our own.
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‘007: First Light’ Review – A Masterful, Generational James Bond Origin Story
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XP Game Summit 2026 Interview: Elana Dunkelman, Myles Dobson, Actors and Members of ACTRA Toronto
